Small businesses
Small businesses turn to banks after loan relief scheme activated
Government has moved into top gear to provide help to small businesses and municipalities with two major announcements by Treasury.
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Informal traders turn to govt's relief fund with hopes of saving businesses
Spaza shops and general dealers are being encouraged to take up government’s offer of funding packages intended to help claw them out of a financial black hole, but this will take a while.
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Small business owners worried about load shedding as heatwave hits SA
Some businesses cannot afford backup generators and remain at the mercy of the power cuts.
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Small business group speaks out against govt over non-payment of services
Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshaveni has revealed that government departments owe service providers over R600 million and are 30 days or more behind in their payments.
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Is Workers' Day worth celebrating with SA's high unemployment rate?
Over the last decade, the local economy hasn't been growing to its full potential, which has meant that the economy hasn't been creating enough jobs to stem the tide of unemployment.
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OPINION: What Agrizzi's state capture testimony means for entrepreneurs
Shawn Theunissen says corruption’s shackles are holding back the entrepreneur as they face an increasingly inescapable moral dilemma – pay the bribe for the lucrative tender or opt for legitimacy.
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Load shedding: Small business owners are losing money
Many business owners have introduced flexitime for workers and are using generators to power the essentials.
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[WATCH] Small businesses say Eskom’s load shedding could cripple them
'If businesses don’t survive, the economy can’t survive' – Joburg business owners want an explanation from Eskom.
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Ramaphosa pledges govt support to young professionals
The president engaged the group in Durban on Wednesday night where they told him what their problems are.
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[LISTEN] How to protect your small business from big businesses
Aurik Business Accelerator founder Pavlo Phitidis says every owner must know his business' worth when working with the big players.
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Ramaphosa hails small businesses as true heroes of SA
It was small business owners who the deputy president saluted, adding that small businesses are where the focus should be.
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'SA failed to address AfDB’s objective of supporting small, medium enterprises'
The bank's Independent Development Evaluation has published a report evaluating engagement in 2004 and 2015.
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City of CT to help develop small emerging businesses
The City of Cape Town says initiatives are in place to boost the development of small businesses in the metro.
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Ramaphosa: Remove barriers to starting businesses
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says tax regimes need to be reformed to promote small business development.
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Cwele: Govt aiming to change monopolistic behaviour of banks
Telecommunications Minister Siyabonga Cwele said there is a need to review the financial sector charters as it relates to the finance to small and informal business.
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From 3 to 200: Advice for growing a business
Real, rapid, and sustainable growth comes from retaining the customers you’ve already won.
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[LISTEN] Are there too many malls in SA?
CapeTalk host Kieno Kammies spoke to Dirk Prinsloo of Urban Studies about the impact of malls on small businesses in SA.
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[LISTEN] Creating opportunities in poorer communities
Experts say entrepreneurship is key to sustaining economic growth in South Africa.
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SA's private-sector output falls further, jobs cut
Businesses are feeling the pressure of slowing growth in most industrialised economies.
